Customizing the Formatting Palette

You can also customize the Formatting Palette to adjust its appearancewhether it fades or minimizes and how it does itand contents. You do this with the Customize Formatting Palette dialog (Figure 71).

Figure 71. The Customize Formatting Palette dialog.

To customize the Formatting Palette

1.	Choose Tools > Customize > Customize Formatting Palette (Figure 51) to display the Customize Formatting Palette dialog (Figure 71).
2.	Set Behavior options as desired: If inactive for enables you to specify how long the Formatting Palette should be inactive before it either fades or minimizes. Drag the slider to set the amount of time from 0 to 60 seconds. Turning on the Never check box prevents the Formatting Palette from either fading or minimizing due to inactivity. Make it enables you to specify whether the Formatting Palette should fade or minimize when inactive. Select one of the radio buttons.
3.	Set Effects options as desired: Fade enables you to specify how transparent the Formatting Palette should get when it fades. Drag the slider to set the transparency from 10 to 100 percent or enter a value in the box beside the slider. Minimize lets you specify whether the Formatting Palette should minimize with a genie effect, scale effect, or no effect at all. Choose an option from the pop-up menu.
4.	Toggle the check boxes in the Panels area to determine which categories of options appear in the Formatting Palette.
5.	Click OK to save your settings.

Tips

• If you often use the Formatting Palette, you may find it annoying that it fades or minimizes. If so, turn on the Never check box in step 2 and it will never fade or disappear on its own again.

• The options that appear in the Formatting Palette vary depending on the document view and text or objects selected in the document window.